Tag: music

Lately, I’ve been finding myself bored with the mechanical grind aspects of music. I’ve been working in practice spaces for years with various musicians and the business of music is feeling like the capitalist commercial process devoid of joy that it is. This isn’t a good feeling, being as singing and writing music are two …

Hi there. I’ve been debating coming back to this blog. I spent about 8 years writing on it. It was a friend to me while I learned all sorts of things about the world and talked too much about myself. I exposed every inner working for the entire blogosphere to see, banking on the fact …

Universe is trippy. I don’t feel like posting anything here today, feel more like, my mind is going to explode. I went about something in a round about way and I got assaulted from unexpected directions with honesty in a way I wasn’t expecting, so in return, I decided, fuck it. If I were to …

“I challenge you to think. To use the mouth that you abuse with to create… IAMX/Music People I have been reading a certain book for a month. When I got to this part: “Overnight, punk had become as stupid as everything else. This wonderful vital force that was articulated by the music was really about …

http://vimeo.com/56817422 I was up in Ashland a few weekends ago for a writer’s conference hosted by Jessica Morrell, with keynote speaker Lidia Yuknavitch, but that’s not what I want to write about. The conference was great, but my conclusion on that weekend is that often the universe is pulling us in certain directions, but not …

If you grow up not believing in your abilities, or that you are worth the time it takes to nurture your abilities, you will often self-sabotage right when you are getting close to a goal. I’m not going to get into the addition of addictive tendencies that come from low self-esteem/genetic components because the bar …

Seems that 90% of my life involves fantasy. I wrote a post about this a while back. But I’ve noticed recently a theme, if you will. This entire year has been the year of delusions and fantasies. None of them came true. Not a single one. But yet, I was pulled in certain directions that …

There’s a scene in the movie Coffee and Cigarettes where Cate Blanchett plays two different characters: herself (a character who pretty much has everything, walks on gilded lilies) and a “cousin”–an indie musician dating other artists and living a life of pretty abject poverty due to being an indie musician. The indie cousin observes Blanchett’s …

“A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it.” ~Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet I was up in some woods in California yesterday and the day previous, trying to clear my head. It’s been pretty damn cluttered lately. Once …